Chapter 875: Breaking the Old and Establishing the New

Viewed from the air, there is a beautiful four-leaf clover in the heart of the Irish capital, Merrick, which is the Parliament Square of the Kingdom of Ireland, and the highest decision-making body of the country, the Kingdom Parliament, exercises the powers entrusted to it by the King and the people in the Parliament Building on the east side of the Parliament Square. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On May 5, 1943, Natsuki came to the parliament building to attend the vote on the bill that day. The King's presence is not a legal procedure for the Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland to vote on bills, and is usually only possible when important bills are being voted on, or during certain special periods, and he must not interfere with the voting process until the voting is over. Of course, according to the Constitution of the Kingdom, if the King does not approve of the results of the Parliament, he can exercise his veto power to have the Parliament vote again, and if the Parliament is unable to reach a result that meets the King's expectations, then the King has the right to invoke a special bill to dissolve the Parliament and reorganize the elections, which has never happened in the 27 years since the birth of the Kingdom of Ireland.

The bill submitted to Parliament for a vote today is indeed very important, and it has to do with whether the Kingdom of Ireland's plan to send regular combat troops to the Asia-Pacific region for the first time has come to fruition -- not long ago, under the combined pressure of white countries in Europe and the United States, the Japanese, who were caught in a multi-front war, finally made a difficult concession and allowed the League of Nations peacekeeping troops to be stationed in predominantly white areas of Australia, and when the situation stabilized, League of Nations officials organized and supervised the Australian people to elect a new Australian local and federal government by means of a referendum.

In the expansion plan of the League of Nations peacekeeping force initiated by Germany earlier, the Irish government promised to provide at least one-tenth of the peacekeeping force, with a maximum ceiling of 20,000 troops, and the League of Nations decided to send 100,000 peacekeeping troops to Australia, the Irish Army is ready to provide 1 mechanized infantry brigade, and the Air Force plans to deploy 45 fighters and 12,405 combat and service personnel.

From a macro point of view, participating in the League of Nations peacekeeping force can not only add points to the country's positive image, but also expand the country's influence in the peacekeeping region, and also allow the troops to get the opportunity to practice in actual combat or close to actual combat, in comparison, the cost of sending peacekeeping troops and potential casualties are completely worth the money, but the Royal Parliament of Ireland has a lot of opposing voices, some people are worried that Japan's high-level acceptance of peacekeeping troops into Australia is only a strategic expediency, once the war in Northeast Asia and South Asia is clear, Maybe one day the Japanese army will find an excuse to protect its own immigrants and so on to kill back to Australia, the mere 200,000 peacekeepers are not enough for the wolf-like Japanese army to plug the teeth, and some people feel that Scotland in secret collusion with the Japanese is something Ireland should be careful against at present, in order to prevent them from threatening the security of the British Isles, it is necessary for the Irish army to be prepared to subdue Scotland, so the most elite mechanized combat units should not be sent to distant Australia.

Although the opposing views were different, it was not enough to prevent the Royal Assembly from passing the bill to send troops to the League of Nations peacekeeping operation - a two-thirds vote in favour indicated that the majority of MPs still endorsed and supported Ireland's current national strategy.

After all the bills of the parliament were voted on that day, Natsuki left his seat and walked to the podium, first congratulated and thanked the parliament for passing the bill to send troops to peacekeeping, concisely emphasized the positive role of this peacekeeping operation on the Western world and even the global pattern, and "opened a new path for civilization to defeat barbarism", and then briefly answered the doubts raised by the opponents, and said that "unless the situation in Scotland reaches the point where it is necessary to send troops, Otherwise, Ireland would not consider the threat of force, or even a preventive attack, against friendly countries".

On the day that the parliament passed the bill to send troops to peacekeeping, Natsuki signed a formal order approving the formation of the 1st Irish Peacekeeping Brigade, and the 52-year-old Irish native general, Lieutenant General Vinnie Odawaren, was appointed as the commander of the task force......

Two days later, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Under the watchful eyes of Kaiser William the Younger and the Empress, more than 20,000 German Army soldiers and more than 6,000 German Marines boarded the ship from the pier. Unlike Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900, when he saw off the expeditionary force to China, these German troops are now sent to war-torn areas as League of Nations peacekeepers. In 1935, when the Japanese army fully occupied Australia, most of the four million residents living here were white, and after the signing of the armistice agreement between the United States and Japan in 1938, the number of white Australians quickly decreased to two million, and in the following years, the Japanese authorities moved more than 600,000 Asian people from their homeland and South Asian countries by mobilization or forced conscription, and the number of whites was further reduced to about 1.8 million, which made the racial structure of Australia change very much, if the international community sat back and watched this change continue, then perhaps in less than ten years, the Japanese will become the rightful rulers of Australia.

As the leader of the Western Allies and the unipolar hegemony in the current world strategic structure, the Germans have the unshirkable responsibility to provoke the pillars of the League of Nations peacekeeping forces. Over the next few weeks, more than 30,000 German Army soldiers, thousands of air force personnel, and hundreds of thousands of tons of war materiel will leave for distant Australia. In order to cope with the difficult and dangerous difficulties they might encounter, the Germans not only sent the ace troops with the most combat experience and the best weapons and equipment to the battle, but also built a super-large integrated supply depot in the Maldives in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Such a painstaking investment of manpower and material resources has naturally aroused a lot of criticism, and many commentators have argued that the move of the Western Allies led by Germany is nothing more than an expansion in the name of peacekeeping. It is true that under the operating rules of the League of Nations, the countries that send troops to maintain peace are by no means selfless and selfless peacekeeping, and the dispatch of peacekeeping troops to Australia this time is not only related to the ownership of the power of this continent, but also involves the racial issues of the East and the West, but after all, it is different from the naked form of war in the past, and there is no longer naked occupation and seizure. To some extent, a new era of civilization is quietly opening!

A few weeks later, the League of Nations Arbitration Commission finally settled the dispute between the British countries, and the Scottish government was to pay England and Wales 67% of the construction money paid by the British Imperial Government to England and Wales respectively before acquiring full ownership of the "Scotland".

At first glance, the Scottish government was the unfortunate side of the international dispute, but it was not, and regardless of whether or not they accepted the outcome of the League of Nations arbitration, this diplomatic affair brought the Scottish Republic and its domineering dictator to the world's visibility, and dragged the British countries into an inevitable arms race.

Shortly after the League of Nations made its arbitration, the 2nd Royal Armoured Cavalry Regiment of England was formally formed in Liverpool. Unlike the 1st Royal Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is more symbolic than substantial, this mechanized unit is an elite combat force built with real money. On the day of its formation, 79 "Teutonic Knight-II" combat vehicles, 27 "Hound Dog" wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles, 90 "heavy cavalry" half-track armored personnel carriers, and 124 "Lightning" trucks purchased from Germany were all in place, more than 500 officers and non-commissioned officers went to Germany for a three-month military training, and nearly 2,000 soldiers received rigorous training in Liverpool.

In the competition for the purchase of equipment for the English Army units, the Irish narrowly lost to the Germans, unfortunately losing this considerable amount of order, while in the competition for the procurement of equipment for the formation of 12 new fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force of England, the Irish-made IR-39A won the excellent value for money, winning a large order for a total of 128 fighters and a full set of maintenance parts for 8 fighter squadrons.

As for the weakened English navy, it was also given the opportunity to greatly expand its strength, ordering two of the most advanced Prince Heinrich-class light cruisers from Germany as the core of the new navy, and purchasing from Germany and Ireland a number of aircraft and ships that had been mothballed after the war, including surface reconnaissance bombers and high-speed torpedo boats, so as to rebuild the defense system of the east and west coasts.

Despite the military protection of Ireland for a long time, the Welsh were eager to build and strengthen their national defence in the face of the expansion of the military forces of Scotland and England. After the King's ********, the Welsh Army immediately recruited 36,000 young people from all walks of life to join the newly formed Defence Force Navy, Land and Air Force.

Backed by the big tree of Ireland, the initial construction cost of the Welsh Defence Force is very low, the Navy used to form the Naval Academy and three naval patrol detachments of 24 small ships are all second-hand goods provided by Ireland free of charge, the Air Force purchased 60 aircraft from Ireland to form 4 training squadrons, except for one squadron equipped with the new IR-39A, the rest are old IR29/30, the Welsh only need to bear part of the salary of Irish instructors; The Welsh Army ordered 10 aircraft to form an aerial reconnaissance liaison air force, and ordered 26 combat vehicles, 42 armoured vehicles and 48 artillery pieces for training, all of which came from the Irish Army's stock equipment, and the unit price by weight was not much more expensive than that of cabbage, and the ordnance and ammunition needed by the Welsh Defence Force for training exercises were also obtained from the Irish Army in Wales at a very low price.

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